Praise for All the Noise of It

"Its title taken from a line in a lovely Leopardi poem about solitude, Christopher Warren's memoir is as intricate and historically detailed a love letter to a place as one could possibly imagine. Written with passionate restraint and yet with a great range of feeling, it far surpasses most of the romantic memoirs of British or American sojourners in this part of the world. Its melancholy and measured tone is a perfect complement to the stoney villages and Etruscan valleys of this strange and obscure part of Tuscany." 

Lawrence Osborne

Author of the International best seller, Beautiful Animals

"Many books have nurtured the American fantasy of moving to Tuscany. But Warren's book, part memoir, part oral history, covers his decades as a citizen, artist, vintner and farmer in the most honest, hilarious and indispensable addition to the canon."

Nina Burleigh

Author of the New York Times best seller, The Fatal Gift of Beauty